true that

All of the AP emails I've seen posted here sound like they were written by a 3rd grader from India who just learned English. They are filled with grammatical errors, incorrect sentence construction, and nonsense phrases. I wonder why this is so, when the rest of Amazon's stuff seems somewhat polished? They must be outsourcing the AP account nannying to India. The sentence above couldn't be more poorly written if you tried.

I do like their overuse of the phrase "It has come to our attention". As in "It has come to our attention that you have a balance remaining." What, like you couldn't just look at the screen? Someone else had to make you aware of it? You had some committee meeting where they discussed my account balance? NO. A simple, "You have a balance remaining. Please withdraw it, Bozo" would work just fine.

Anyway, regarding the SSNs and soft pulls I'm going to try AUs on my card accounts and see if that works for AP's checks.

I've been doing the same thing as you...mostly family members, some friends, all managed by me. Many husband/wife have same bank account over 2 amazon accounts, a lot of overlap in credit cards across different amazon accounts (although I usually add the credit card, make the payment, then delete the credit card). Of the approximately 20 accounts I manage, 5 were shut down this week. 2 sets of husband/wife accounts with same bank account linked were put to sleep. Husband side of a husband/wife duo with same bank account died.

I live abroad (Australia), as it looks like you do as well. Historically, I haven't worried about IP address...I've pretty much done all of them from one IP address and often times used the same credit card for all transfers across the 15-20 accounts. I pretty much always send the full $1,000 in one shot (rarely break it up). For July, been using my VPN a lot...getting cautious.

When my account and my wife's got shut down, I set up new accounts in each of our names immediately, which looked to be ready to go, but within 48hours both were shut down as well.

Other data points...

most often I never closed the loop (i.e. sent all $ in one direction and the one at the front of the line never sent money to the one at the back of the line

most (nearly all) of the money was withdrawn to one of 2 bank accounts that were linked to 2 amazon accounts (my wife's and mine).

I've been doing this for years, although I've scaled up in 2014, adding 8-10 more accounts to the congo line.

I agree with Kahn...it looks like AP is cracking down...

So I accidentally set up two accounts under my husbands name. I accidentally used the other one in May for a payment. I have not used it the rest of the year and I did not use the primary for a payment in May. In other words only a total of 1K or less has gone out between the two accounts per month. Today I tried to send a payment to someone who does work for us (yes I know weird an actual legitimate one-way payment) and it failed. It was followed by an email stating my husband has duplicate accounts which have been closed. Do I have him call them and explain? Do I just let it go and try and open a new account with his ssn in a month or so? Any help on what to do now would be much appreciated.

Having 2 accounts, in the AP world, is a no no. Were both his accounts closed? Many times they will just shut down one of the accounts. I don't think explaining the situation to them will do any good.

I know, I know - like I said it was accidental and not abused. Are there any others out there who were able to get their account reopened or open a new account later?

The Bezos tribe of headhunters just hit 2 AMEX GC payments with poison darts. Did someone forget to sacrifice a chicken to the great god Jeffe or is this just another random act of unkindness by the tribe? Happened in two different accounts this month on different dates.

No issues yesterday with 1 AGC, two separate accts.

Happened to me last month.
They were gracious to keep one open.

So 2 AP accounts, Account A and account B. Separate socials, banks and CCs to this point.

Last night the person who is account A used person B's AU credit card to order something from person A's Amazon account (not amazon payments). I was considering doing my $1k AP transfer today, but got worried. Is the credit card now linked to AP account A, AP account B, or neither? Can I link that credit card to any Amazon Payment accounts?

Basically, does anyone know how well amazon payments and regular amazon is integrated? Will it set off alarm bells if I link card to a different person in AP than was using it in regular old Amazon? Will set off alarm bells to use it on A's account given that it was previously used as B's CC. It's a Chase by the way, so same CC numbers.

I was thinking the safest solution would probably be to use the card through AP to transfer from Account A (most likely already linked) to AP account C (not connected to this mess currently). I would like to avoid using AP on this card at all, but I need about $7k more spend on this card so it's hard to pass up, and I don't have other open cards that need spend. If I get contacted then at least I can plead a case based on it being person A's CC, and person B just being an AU that made an amazon purchase without checking who was logged in (card actually belongs to person C's credit, hopefully doesn't matter).

did you call or did they just leave it open?

When you log into your AP account, you will see all the instruments associated with the account, then log into Amazon, and see what is there. You can compare and see if they are the same list.

The meta question is, is keeping your AP accounts intact worth paying the $450 AF...

I make sure I use different CCs for DH and myself while sending money to each other. For CapOne cards where primary and AU's have different numbers, it *might* work, but for Chase, Amex, Discover-it that AUs have the same number, I do not use it as funding source for both accounts. I am careful about using a card just ONCE for each account and don't add, delete them later and then interchange(paranoid that they may have a record of what CC number is attached to certain names). I've been using AP for the past 2 years now and so far so good, not taking forgranted some steps that can possibly call attention to our accounts. I'd rather be safe than sorry and enjoy this free service.

If it was me or DH, we won't call and just let them close the account. I'll wait 30 to 60 days to open a new account and hopefully, they'll approve it.

I suggest you do what you feel comfortable doing but at the same time weigh all pros and cons if you really want to make the call for reconsideration. Whatever you decide, good luck!

The AF doesn't matter, it's the spend needed for the South West cards. It's only $138 AF, and I will meet the min spend for the 50k points no problem. It's just the $10k spend for the companion pass that takes longer. This AP account would have given me another $3k ($4k on another AP with the business card, plus $3k regular spend, and I'm there). I'd rather not have to use UR points to finish this off (through Hyatt).

If the card is still in Person A's account with Person B's name I think I'll delete it in Amazon (not AP) then give it a few days before adding it into AP on Person A's account with their name.